COMING SOON

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COMING SOON

$35.00

The following description is based on a 4-week course. However, this rate is for one 90-minute class that will highlight the course’s key points. During the four-week experience, participants are guaranteed to be introduced to all of the content outlined below and will have access to additional resources and interactive activities. The course will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays of both February and May to honor Omowale Malcolm X.

If you would like to take the 4-week course please click the CLASS PACK SPECIAL and select this course.

1.    Students will gain the most comprehensive understanding of Malcolm X of any class offered anywhere to date. This course is based on the research of over 50 Malcolm X books. They will learn Malcolm X’s lineage on both parent’s sides traced back to Africa. This lineage will include the professions and challenges that faced earlier family members that arose as challenges for Malcolm and generations of his family that have come after him concluding with the tragedy that transpired with his grandson.

2.    Students will learn about the people who influenced Malcolm X before and beyond Elijah Muhammad, including the specific books and experiences that shaped his development. This is important for students and parents to understand by identifying what experiences our children must have in order to create another Malcolm X or thousands of Malcolm Xs.

3.    Students will be given a Malcolm X Study Guide, required to watch numerous video clips, and entire documentaries on Malcolm X. They will be given articles that cover his success on the debate team in prison to what he wrote in his personal diary the year before he was assassinated. They will compare and contrast interviews with people who loved him and were closest to him, and agencies such as the CIA, FBI, and the New York City police department. These interviews will serve as context for unpacking the meaning of statements made by Black informants to disrupt, discredit and destroy Malcolm X, The Nation of Islam, and Black people.

4.    Students will learn information that was completely left out of the latest series on Netflix about who killed Malcolm X, particularly, they will learn about the 6 assassination attempts on Malcolm X’s life before the Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965. Malcolm’s assassination will be placed within the context of the U.S. government’s plan to wipe out all global leaders who wanted to revolt against global white domination. 

5.    Students will move beyond what Amos Wilson called the “hero worship approach” to history and learn to critically analyze the challenges our ancestors faced so we can appropriately address many of the same issues we face today. Students will learn problem resolution skills through situations that faced Malcolm and they will have to choose what they think the best strategy is to overcome the adversity. They will learn how to identify what made Malcolm truly dangerous to white power and such a blessing to Black people. Students will have a more realistic approach to Malcolm’s decision- making and not just his speaking abilities.

6.   Students will learn what the real conflict between Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X was and who fanned the flames of dissension between them. Yes, we will look deeply into Louis Farakhan, John Ali, Raymond Sharrief and other members of “The Royal family” (the family of Elijah Muhammad). We will have no fear in where this research will take us and what questions and conversations will come from it.

7.    Students will see how Malcolm X did not change when he came back from his second trip to Mecca but how his strategy changed. We will utilize video clips to examine why.

*** Participants must be fully committed to asking questions, discussing topics with their families, do readings, view videos, do additional research and make a plan for how they will carry forward the work of Malcolm X.


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“It’s imperative that our children learn from people who resemble their aesthetic, and know our history and culture. T’Shango Mbilishaka has spent over a decade studying and implementing African centered pedagogy. A brilliant educator, dedicated to uplifting our community through history and engaging lessons, I had the pleasure of working with T’Shango on several educational programs. I have been in awe many years by his integrity, empathy, tenacity, passion, and thoughtfulness. These traits in conjunction with his ability of curating education programs to engage the family unit to shape nuanced solutions place him in a class of his own. A natural leader, social activist and artist, T’Shango believes that the best way to quickly foment change is by working at the grassroots level to impact the lives of those most in need of assistance through African centered education.”

-Falani Afrika

“Mwalimu T’Shango Mbilishaka is a rare breed among African Centered scholars and educators. His thoughts and actions are extensions of his love for our people and his strategies incorporate the wisdom of many ancestors and living giants including Barbara Sizemore, Amos Wilson, Asa Hilliard, Hannibal Afrik, Agyei Akoto and Marimba Ani to name a few. His work for the past decades has been focused on the total upliftment of the African family through his work at various educational institutions. He continues to be on a tireless search to focus our families’ attention on all of the elements of liberation of the mind, body and the spirit of our people. The fruits of his work have been made manifest through an enlightened variety of strategies to educate, to motivate and to inform our parents and our children simultaneously. Through the observation of the youth that he has touched and through testimonials of the parents of his students, it has been verified that his strategies and techniques continue to be fabulously transformative. His ongoing research interests are inclusive of Afrikan and oppressed people’s freedom struggles, family physical wellness and preparations in anticipation of difficult times.”

-Baba Jawara Hunter, Community Elder and Organizer

“Baba T’Shango Mbilishaka is a master teacher whose enthusiasm and commitment to the education and development of African children is total and complete. Baba T’Shango has learned at the feet of some of the greats- Hilliard, Akoto, Ani and Kambon, just to name a few. Now he is offering what he’s learned from our esteemed scholars and what he has learned from almost two decades as a classroom teacher, as his personal offering to the preparation of the next generations of African educators and scholars.”

Seba Sékou Oláyínká -Jegna of Ẹgbé̩ Ijọba


“T’SHANGO IS THE EDUCATOR THAT THE PAN AFRICAN WORLD DESERVES AND NEEDS!

With the spread of misinformation, political pandering and vapid symbolism, how and where can we show our children a clear path of understanding to their true relationship to culture and the global politic? Our children, our families and our people need clarity, integrity and a focused commitment to improving our condition. With the correct political education and an understanding in the value of our culture and history, we can take the right action to serve our interests rather than work against our interests. That is the selfish love I have seen in the courageous work from educator, writer, speaker and master teacher, T’Shango Mbilishaka. The forward, visionary thinking that the sons and daughters of Africa need is what I’ve witnessed in his classroom, in is office during his office hours, in his output and results of his students. As a colleague, I have seen T’Shango sit with students at his feet yearning for political education to empower themselves. I have seen him share African proverbs, anecdotes from his journey and quote the teachings of Malcolm X, Fanny Lou Hamer, Marcus Garvey, and Ella Baker. I do not know a more well-read scholar on Black (African Diasporan) culture, history, and politics. As a leading scholar and general in the journey of independence for the African Diaspora, I see T’Shango’s work on par with the great Asa Hilliard, Runoko Rashidi, Booker T. Coleman, and the legendary historian John Henrik Clarke. He is carrying the torch of these scholars and doing the work to connect the children of the diaspora with the continent of Africa. Decolonizing one’s mind is a process that needs the guidance of an informed and compassionate leader. Educator T’Shango Mbilishaka is that guide that the African world needs and deserves.”

-Edward Hegerman, Teacher